714 has no square factors that allow its square root to be simplified. √714 ≈ 26.720778.

Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs. His record for the most home runs stood for nearly 39 years when Hank Aaron hit the 715th home run of his career.

The number of prime factors that 714 has is a power of two so 714 can make a very attractive factor tree all by itself. 715 only has three prime factors so its factor tree doesn’t look as nice. I still wanted to make factor trees for both of them so I multiplied them together and made this impressive looking factor tree:

(The picture of the 714 baseball in the graphic above listed e-bay as the source while the picture of the 715 baseball was from Sports Memorabilia.com. The 715 ball is autographed by Al Downing, the former all-star and comeback player of the year, who pitched the ball that became Hank Aaron’s 715th home run.)

The numbers 714 and 715 form what is now called a Ruth Aaron Pair. Other consecutive numbers whose factors add up to equal numbers are also given that name.

Between the numbers 714 and 715 ALL the prime numbers less than or equal to 17 are used as factors exactly one time.

I became aware of these facts several months ago when Dan Bach sent me this tweet: